A federal judge said Monday that the NSA is not required to release information about its wiretapping program, according to MSNBC. The People for the American Way Foundation sued to obtain records under the Freedom of Information Act to find out how many wiretaps were approved and who reviewed the program.
The NSA denied the request, saying it could jeopardize national security. If terrorists knew how many people had been wiretapped, they might be able to discover exactly how suspicious you have to be to be wiretapped and thus could learn to stay just under the radar. And since there is no reason that people might want to know how many times the fourth amendment was violated and who reviewed the program, it was a perfectly reasonable decision on the NSA’s part.
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27 November 2006 at 11:18 am
[...] Documents obtained by the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the FBI is using its Joint Terrorism Task Forces to gather extensive information about peaceful organizations. Recently, President Bush acknowledged giving explicit and secret authorization for warrantless electronic eavesdropping and physical searches by the National Security Agency. Now, there is reason to believe that the Pentagon, too, is illegally gathering and sharing private and protected information. Read More and heres the proof… [...]